Saturday, June 01, 2002

A Test Something is goofy on my computer.  Either IE or the McAfee firewall are freezing up everything.  And XP won't even let me halt the explorer process like I can do on 2000. And it killed my entry on the all-nighter and the beauty of the morning. 4:43:06 AM     Nice article on the distribution of content moving away from central servers to the edge of networks.  The peer to peer movement continues to role forward.  InfoWorld: Computing on the edge. Justin isn't on the edge; he's over the edge! via [Hack the Planet] Here are some quotes: WebRAID - I like the sound of that. Our technology is actually very end-to-end, so we have technology that can sit on the content consumer side. This is what's called a WebRAID technology, which transfers content reliably between the storage and the operating system, and very quickly. WebRAID technology is essentially RAID over HTTP. That allows us to transfer content from multiple Web sites, multiple caches and peers on the network in parallel. So we get very fast downloads and we can get very reliable downloads. In the case of a traditional CDN, where you might have congestion on this last mile or that link may go down entirely, the WebRAID technology is intelligent enough to find all sorts of other ways to get that content on the network. It can aggressively locate content on the network. On the implications for the Semantic Web The Semantic Web is sort of the end goal of this whole thing. The goal is to make it so that computers can understand every application and piece of content on the network. What the content-addressable Web really allows is for the Semantic Web to reliably retrieve that content. A key part of the content-addressable Web is that content itself is given a unit name. It's not based on the location. So no matter where a piece of content exists on the network, computers can address that content and access that content and not worry that the original Web site might be down. 4:09:33 AM     Yet another examle of how games are becoming the leading edge of where human computer interaction and graphics technology become commercialized.  Game Controls Fit Like a Glove. No matter how cool games are, players still need to control them. Companies are offering innovations that make that old joystick look, uh, well, old. By Brad King. [Wired News] 4:05:48 AM     A Whole New View from Space This is amazing stuff.  Check out the flash demo to get a sense of what this program can do.  The actual client program runs $500 per year but if it delivers on the demo it'd be worth it.  There is another option to allow you to integrate your own geospatial data into the program.  My first thought is how cool that would be to follow world events or display historical events.  Imagine being able to fly over a view of the West Bank while reading or hearing about the intifadha.  The images aren't realtime yet but it won't be long before civilians will have the power of the government as seen in Enemy of the State. posted by chrismear » May 31 5:59 PM | 1 comments. Earth Viewer compiles satellite imagery on the fly to produce a photo-realistic, spinnable, zoomable model of the entire Earth, right on your computer. And I mean zoomable -- one slider takes you smoothly from seeing the entire globe down to seeing individual people queuing to get into the Louvre... [MetaFilter] 3:48:10 AM

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